NME's New Music Tips For 2010

If you've seen the new issue you'll know it's a new music special, dedicated to the bands we think you'll love in the coming year - as well as a few tips from the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Kings Of Leon and The xx.

For a hands-on accompaniment to the issue, you can download a free mixtape featuring all the bands we're tipping over on Jaimie Hodgson's Radar blog.

Plus, let us know who you think deserves to make it big in 2010 by posting a comment on the office blog.

16Washed Out

NME says: Washed Out is the prolific project of elusive 27-year-old Ernest Greene, who hails from the deepest depths of America's South, and is now at the centre of a slobbering industry scrum. He appears to have 2010 on lockdown.Free mixtape track: 'Feel It All Around'[Myspace]

15Everything Everything

NME says: Theirs is a modern, mathy mongrel pop music where the spirit of contemporary R&B, classical songwriting structure and barbershop harmonies are all ripe for the picking.They say: "We're trying to avoid cliche at all costs. If it's Girls Aloud or Slint, it doesn't matter."Free mixtape track: 'My KZ Urbf'[Myspace]

13Music Go Music

NME says: We've been enchanted by California's hippy-disco mystics Music Go Music since they first emerged as the offshoot of showtune indie-gods Bodies Of Water.They say: "Maybe the fact that we do other things aside from Music Go Music means it isn't really a reflection of our identities."Free mixtape track: 'Warm In The Shadows (Villa Remix')[Myspace]

9Delphic

NME says: Delphic could end up a world-conquering band. Their anthemic brand of house music enhanced with arena-sized guitars has the potential to define a summer. They say: "We're trying to recreate that 5am feeling when you're wandering round after a club."Free mixtape track: 'Counterpoint'[Myspace]